Study of association between use of complementary and alternative medicine and non-compliance with modern medicine in patients presenting to the emergency department

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 96-101

  Jose, V ^a   Bhalla, A ^a   Sharma, N ^a   Hota, D ^a   Sivaprasad, S ^a   Pandhi, P ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Complementary and alternative medicine; Emergency admission; Noncompliance; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHI SQUARE TEST; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEMOPHILIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEIZURE; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT T TEST; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 34249336384     PISSN: 00223859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0022-3859.32208     Document Type: Article

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